FINGER LAKES PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE www.fingerlakespermaculture.org announces
2007 ADVANCED DESIGN COURSE *June 13 - 23* with Dave Jacke, Jono Neiger, and Darren Doherty $850 + food (you can also sign up for classes individually) Ithaca, NY The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) invites all permaculture design course graduates to an exciting and unique Advanced Design Course this summer in Ithaca, NY. You can help develop a 5-year plan to turn the dormant Cayuga Nature Center farm (www.cayuganaturecenter.org) into a permaculture demonstration site and learn advanced keyline design and practice! We encourage permaculture graduates who want to improve their design literacy to come spend ten days honing their skills in a cooperative, engaging, demanding, and fun atmosphere. You can take the two sections of the Advanced Design Course singly or together. Long-time permaculture designers and teachers Dave Jacke and Jono Neiger will first facilitate a five-day intensive Design Charrette for the farm property. Australian permaculture designer Darren Doherty will then lead a Keyline Design Workshop there. The Design Charrette will develop a comprehensive set of overall farm design schemes and detailed design proposals. The Keyline Workshop will deepen your knowledge of soils, soil fertility, and broadscale keyline design and implementation strategies and techniques. FLPCI will issue Advanced Design Certificates signed by the instructors to students attending the entire two-part course. The Cayuga Nature Center (CNC) purchased the adjacent farm property in 1991. The site has since briefly hosted horse stables, a goat nursery, and a large-scale composting facility, though the farm now lies quiescent. In early 2006, CNC sought proposals for farm uses, and ended up partnering with FLPCI to redesign the entire 130 acre nature center. Our initial farm assessment indicated there were a number of issues that would inhibit sustainable use of the property. Many years of dairying compacted the soils, resulting in runoff and drainage problems, created heavy erosion, damaged buildings, and silted three ponds. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to turn these problems into opportunities in true permaculture style. How can we improve soil fertility and productivity, create economically-viable farm businesses and long-term ecosystem health, and generate multiple educational experiences? Come help answer these questions for ten days in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York this June. We look forward to working with you! June 13 – 17 * PERMACULTURE FARM DESIGN CHARRETTE* with DAVE JACKE of Dynamics Ecological Design, educator, designer and author of Edible Forest Gardens (http://www.edibleforestgardens.com) and JONO NEIGER of Regenerative Design, ecologist, land steward, teacher and designer. TUITION: Sliding Scale $350 - $450 ($850 including Keyline Design Workshop) + food PREREQUISITE: Permaculture Design Certificate Challenge yourself and deepen your understanding of ecological design processes and how to use them! In this intensive, focused, time-limited design experience (aka a “charrette”), we will develop a master plan for the Cayuga Nature Center farm that articulates and integrates landform, water, access and circulation, plantings, buildings, and zones of use. The problem is the solution, and we will use practical, methodical, and intuitive means to discover synergies and solutions inherent in the land that embody whole systems thinking. You will work in teams, develop drafting and mapping skills, complete site analysis exercises, brainstorm and evaluate design schemes, work out design details where needed, and present your results to the Cayuga Nature Center staff and the public. We will focus on the design process and how the goals, site assessment, and design phases connect to each other. How might the design reflect and integrate the complex needs of the site and its people? We will design the entire farm site, including earthworks, aquaculture, animal forage, tree crops, coppice, and food production systems. Design Charrette Goals: 1. Deeply engage with a concrete, and organized ecological design process, including goals articulation, site analysis and assessment, design concepts, and schematic, detailed, and patch design. 2. Develop greater skill and confidence in your inherent design process by making it more explicit, effective, and efficient. 3. Engage in a cooperative design charrette that develop at least one workable Permaculture Site Design for the FLPCI Farm that regenerates the landscape while meeting human needs. 4. Experience permaculture as an integrative, whole systems, ecological design process—where the verb of permaculture is design. June 18 – 23 * SOIL & WATER FOR EVERY FARM: KEYLINE DESIGN * with DARREN DOHERTY, permaculture teacher, designer, developer, and manager with extensive international experience in keyline design. http://www.permaculture.biz TUITION: $600 ($850 with Advanced Design Seminar) + food PREREQUISITE: None Build soil and store water in the land during an intensive blend of technical & practical sessions targeted at professional land managers, consultants, earthmovers, designers, farmers & others seeking in practical & cost-effective landscape restoration strategies. We hope to enable local and regional Permaculture Designers to broaden and strengthen their business opportunities by adding rural design and development services. This is also an opportunity for commercial farmers and land owners to discover new methods and ideas to increase productivity, build soil, and solve water issues. Participants attending the workshop will gain the following outcomes: 1. Basic understanding of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in developing Permaculture/Keyline Designs 2. Provision of Microsoft Excel-based Worksheet package for Client & Project Management, Development and Management processes (see attached .pdf file) 3. Base understanding of design and development principles involved with Broadacre Permaculture & Keyline Design applications including: - Whole Farm Planning/Property Management Planning - Land Component identification and classification - Earthworks & Soil Renovation techniques and machinery applications - Use and development of land system-based standard designs - Farm Forestry & Tree Crop ground preparation, management & processing techniques - Water Harvesting & Drought-proofing methods and applications FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.fingerlakespermaculture.org _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
